bug#1020: url-default-expander expands wrongly on Windows

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 14:54, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>> the function url-default-expander calls expand-file-name which
>> inserts interesting but wrong drive letters into URLs when called
>> on Windows.
>
> Can you show an example so as to help us understand the problem?

ELISP> (url-expand-file-name "test" "http://www.gnu.org/";)
"http://www.gnu.org/c:/test";
ELISP> (url-expand-file-name "test" "http://www.gnu.org";)
"http://www.gnu.org/c:/emacs/lisp/url/test";
ELISP> (url-expand-file-name "/test" "http://www.gnu.org/";)
"http://www.gnu.org/test";
ELISP> (url-expand-file-name "/test" "http://www.gnu.org";)
"http://www.gnu.org/test";


    Juanma